Method and vibrating device for conditioning, air-conditioning, cooling and decontaminating, disinfecting and sterilization physical media

ABSTRACT

The invention relates to a method using vibration for conditioning, air-conditioning, cooling and decontaminating, disinfecting and sterilizing physical media. The method is characterized in that it comprises at least one first periodic action ( 13 ) that is performed on the regulated incoming current of the physical medium ( 2 ) represented by refrigerating agents and at least one second periodic action ( 11 ) that is performed on the same physical medium in a refrigerating chamber. In this way, the flow of the physical medium ( 2 ) is formed and the necessary and adequate conditions for cooling the same are created. At least one refrigerating medium ( 3 ) and at least cold-absorbing medium ( 6 ) are caused to interact in a heat exchanging system ( 1 ). The invention also comprises at least one third periodic action ( 10 ) which is performed on a cold-absorbing medium. In this way the physical medium is continuously and/or periodically decontaminated and the necessary and adequate conditions for the functioning of the decontamination system in its steady state are created.

[0001] The invention is related to the domain of conditioning, air conditioning, cooling and decontamination, of disinfection, sterilisation of physical environments or media by means of periodic actions and concerns a process and devices allowing the performing of such functions.

[0002] The invention is applicable to the liquid, gas environments and to the mixed environments composed by liquids, gases and colloidal and solid substances. Elements treated by the periodic actions and elements performing calorific exchanges can be represented by cooling agents constituted by liquid, gas, solid and mixed, organic and/or not organic environments, whereas the periodic actions performing the conditioning, the air conditioning, the cooling and the decontamination, the disinfection, the sterilisation of aforesaid physical environments can be represented by mechanical, electromechanical, ultrasound, magnetic, electromagnetic and mixed vibratory systems.

[0003] Processes and devices of conditioning, air conditioning, cooling and decontamination, disinfection, sterilisation of physical environments used in conditioners, air-conditioners, refrigerating devices and current systems of decontamination are known.

[0004] The essential inconveniences of the existing processes and devices are the following ones: important spending of energy; weak efficiency and return; complex construction; important cycle duration; high costs of the installations and of their exploitation; pollution and important noise; important volume and necessary surface for the achievement of these functions; weak level of protection against contamination which after all limits their practical applications.

[0005] The proposed process and the device for its implementation, are lacking the aforementioned inconveniences, importantly simplifying the principles and the systems performing them, and consequently increasing the return of devices and decreasing several times the spending of time and of energy for the tasks of conditioning, air conditioning, cooling and decontamination, disinfection, sterilisation of physical environments.

[0006] Thus it has for object a vibratory process of conditioning, air conditioning, cooling and decontamination, disinfection, sterilisation of physical environments, characterised by the fact that:

[0007] By means of at least one first periodic action, one acts on the regulated input stream of the physical environment represented by refrigerating agents and by means of at least one second periodic action on the same physical environment in a cold room and therefore, one forms the stream of cooled physical environment and one creates the necessary and sufficient conditions of its cooling,

[0008] One forms an interaction between at least one cooling environment and at least one cold-absorbing environment,

[0009] According to other characteristics of the invention:

[0010] By means of at least a third periodic action, one acts on a cold-absorbing environment and therefore, one disinfects in a continuous or/and periodical way this physical environment and one creates the necessary and sufficient conditions of the functioning of the system of decontamination in stationary regime,

[0011] By means of at least a fourth periodic action, one acts on a cold-absorbing environment and therefore, one achieves the necessary and sufficient conditions to form at least one closed circuit of the traffic of the cold-absorbing physical environment by regulating its debit by means of a regulation device,

[0012] By means of at least a fifth periodic action, one acts on a cooling environment and therefore, one achieves the necessary and sufficient conditions to form at least one closed circuit of the traffic of the cooled physical environment by regulating its debit by means of a regulation device,

[0013] One feeds the periodic action systems with the energy of at least one source in optimal regime and therefore one achieves the necessary and sufficient conditions of the vibratory treatment of the physical environment to perform the effective regimes of regulated functioning of the systems of conditioning, air conditioning, cooling and decontamination, disinfection, physical sterilisation of environments.

[0014] The invention has also for object a process of vibratory treatment—such as defined above—, which acts on at least one cooling physical environment by modifying its state of aggregate and which presents the following characteristics:

[0015] By means of at least one periodic mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, electric, magnetic, electromagnetic, acoustic or mixed action, one acts on the physical environment cool, one micronises and one divides the physical environment in the form of vapor and/or sprayer constituted by particles with dimensions lower than the micron,

[0016] By means of at least one periodic action on the micronised cooled physical environment, this environment is recovered in order to be used in a closed circuit with the help of the device in regulated regime.

[0017] According to other characteristics:

[0018] One acts in an additional way on the stream of the cold-absorbing physical environment by a periodic action—notably by a hard brilliance or by a magnetic radiation, or still by an electromagnetic and/or mixed brilliance—, thus one creates additional conditions favouring its decontamination, its disinfection and its sterilisation.

[0019] The invention has besides for object a device for the implementation of the process defined above, which contains at least: a first system of vibratory periodic action system and a second vibratory periodic action system fed by an energy source and acting on a regulated stream of the physical environment represented by refrigerating agents in a cold chamber; a closed circuit of the traffic of the cooling physical environment and the system of regulation of its debit by means of a regulation device; a closed circuit of the traffic of the cold-absorbing physical environment and the system of regulation of its debit by means of a regulation device; a cold chamber and a heat exchanger performing the interaction between at least one cooling environment and at least one cold-absorbing environment; at least a vibratory system of decontamination, disinfection and sterilisation of physical environments.

[0020] According to other characteristics:

[0021] The first and second systems are reunited in a single periodic action system,

[0022] The first and second periodic action systems are set in motion by the energy of the regulated stream of the physical environment, notably when the first and second systems are achieved in the form of a siren or of a whistle,

[0023] The cold chamber and the heat exchanger are reunited in a single system of exchange of heat,

[0024] The regulated gates and/or suction pumps constitute the systems of regulation of the debit of the physical environments.

[0025] The invention has finally for object, a device for the implementation of the process defined above, characterised by the fact that it contains at least: a first vibratory action system, notably of electromagnetic and/or thermic brilliance, which acts on the regulated streams of the physical environments; a second periodic action system, notably of mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, magnetic, electric, ultrasound or mixed type, performing the micronisation of the physical environment in a treatment chamber, for instance a cold and/or an acoustic chamber, or still a heat exchange chamber (heat exchanger), or a mixed chamber, and pulverising it in the form of vapor or of sprayer by means of a pulverisation system, which represents at least a cooling and/or freezing system of the cooling environment, at least a closed circuit of the traffic of the cooling physical environment and at least a system of regulation of its debit by means of a device of regulation constituted by a regulated gate and/or by a suction pump; at least a closed circuit of the traffic of the cold-absorbing physical environment and at least a system of regulation of its debit by means of a regulation device constituted by a regulated gate and/or by a suction pump; a cold chamber and at least a heat exchanger performing the interaction between at least a cooling environment and at least a cold-absorbing environment; at least a vibratory system of decontamination, disinfection and sterilisation of physical environments.

[0026] On FIG. 1 are represented in broad outline the schematic view of the devices operating the proposed process of conditioning, air conditioning, cooling and decontamination, disinfection, sterilisation of physical environments or media.

[0027] The device represented on FIG. 1 contains a heat exchange system (heat exchanger) 1 in which a regulated input stream of a physical environment or medium 2 is cooled and forms a cooling environment or medium 3, a vibratory treatment system 4, at least one chamber 5 constituting a volume in which the cold-absorbing environment or medium 6 accumulates, a device 7 performing the regulated evacuation and/or circulation of the cooling environment stream 3, appearing for instance under the shape of a regulated gate and/or a pump of evacuation, a device 8 performing a regulated stream of the cold-absorbing environment 6, constituted for instance by a regulated gate and/or a pump of evacuation, at least one power supply source 9, which can be adjusted by means of electronic regulation 9 a of external (vibratory) periodic action systems 10, 11, 12, and 13 performing the vibratory actions respectively on the input stream of the physical environment 2, on the cooling environment 3, on the cold-absorbing environment 6 and on the vibratory treatment system 4 of the physical environment 2 and at least one system 14 performing the regulated evacuation and/or circulation of the cooling environment stream 3 and of the cold-absorbing environment 6 by the systems 7 and 8.

[0028] The physical environment 2 can be constituted by a liquid, gas environment or by an environment mixed by organic and/or not organic substances, in the composition of which can enter liquids, gases, colloidal or solid bodies or a combination of the aforementioned substances.

[0029] The cold-absorbing environment 6 can be constituted by a liquid, gas environment or by an environment mixed by organic and/or not organic substances of liquid, gas, colloidal and solid type or combinations of such substances.

[0030] The vibratory action systems 11, 12, 13 can appear under the shape of at least one device of ultrasound action, for instance a siren, a whistle, a piezo-electric vibrator or a combination of the aforementioned devices, of at least one device of magnetostriction type, one device of magnetic or electromagnetic type, creating for instance a magnetic or electromagnetic field of corresponding configuration or intensity or, finally, various combinations of aforementioned devices and systems. Vibratory action systems 10 can appear under the shape of at least one magnetic or electromagnetic device, creating for example a magnetic or electromagnetic field of configuration or intensity corresponding to the need of decontamination, disinfection, sterilisation of physical environments. The system 15 performs the regulated evacuation and/or circulation of the cooling environment stream 3 by the system 7. The system 14 performs the regulated evacuation and/or circulation of the regulated stream of cold-absorbing environment 6 by the system 8. The power supply system 9 performs the indispensable regimes of functioning of the systems 10,11,12,13,14 and 15 and includes the regulator 9 a, which allows to vary the frequencies and the energy amplitudes according to the regimes of functioning of these systems. In this way the systems 9 and 9 a can perform the regulation of the device debit by variation of the frequency and of the amplitude of the periodic actions on the treated environments 2, 3 and on the devices regulating the evacuation and the circulation of these environments. The streams of the treated environment 2 can be used as a source of energy to supply the system 4.

[0031] The vibratory actions 11,12,13 can be performed by a unique vibrator or system.

[0032] The vibratory treatment device 4 can contain:

[0033] At least a device performing the micronisation and the pulverising with fine dispersal of the physical environment 2, for example a mechanical and/or acoustics, and/or pneumatic, and/or still hydraulic or mixed atomiser 4 which scatters and injects the physical environment 2 in the form of vapor or sprayer with dimensions of particles (droplets) of the molecular level (lower than the micron).

[0034] In that case, the expensive and energy-wasting traditional process is replaced by a technology of injection with weak dispersal that is characterised by a demand of energy and time which is ten times and even thousand times less important.

[0035] So, the chamber 1 can be constituted by an acoustic chamber of microniser, the device of vibratory treatment 4 is a system including a syringe which pulverises the physical environment 2 with fine dispersal.

[0036] According to the plan represented in the FIG. 1, the vibratory process of conditioning, air conditioning, cooling and decontamination, disinfection, sterilisation of physical environment is implemented in the following way.

[0037] The regulated stream of the physical environment 2 penetrates into the chamber 1 of the heat exchange system.

[0038] During its movement, the physical environment is subjected to at least one periodic action 11 at once before its introduction in the chamber 1 as well as in the chamber 6 itself by means of the system 12. The aforesaid actions 11 and 12 create the conditions of cooling of the environment 2 under the effect of the mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, magnetic, electromagnetic, acoustic or/and mixed vibrations and contribute to the effective evacuation by means of the system 7 in regulated regime.

[0039] In the chamber 5, the cold-absorbing physical environment 6 enters interaction with the cooling environment 3, which a vibratory action is applied to, assuring the conditions of its cooling and its continuous functioning in stationary regime.

[0040] The regulated stream of the heat-absorbing physical environment 6 circulates for example in the stationary circuit. During its movement, the stream of physical environment 6 can be subjected to at least one vibratory action 10 for example by means of a brilliance with microwaves, which creates an additional favourable condition of decontamination, disinfection and sterilisation of physical environment 6.

[0041] The aforesaid actions 11 and 13 establish the necessary and sufficient conditions for a pulverising of the physical environment 2 with fine dispersal, in the form of vapor and/or of sprayer and they prepare it for the process of fast cooling and/or freezing in the system 1.

[0042] Particles with fine dispersal of the cooling environment 3 cooled and/or frozen, for example of pure water penetrate into the chamber 1 in which they melt under the effect of a periodic brilliance 12, for example a microwaves radiation or another thermal or electromagnetic radiation, and are evacuated or/and circulate by means of the system 7 in regulated regime.

[0043] The present invention appeals to a process of simultaneous action on a physical environment 2 (FIG. 1), and/or on a heat-absorbing environment 6 by means of at least two periodic actions, such as described first in the French patent N 96 02 080 of the same prosecutors.

[0044] However, unlike the invention described in the aforesaid application for a patent, the implementation of at least two periodic actions on the treated environments is used not for their mixture, but for their cold vaporisation and their rustle.

[0045] Within the framework of the present invention, the process according to the French patent N 96 02 080 is applied to conditioning, air conditioning, cooling and decontamination, disinfection, sterilisation of physical environments in the following way.

[0046] According to the process described in the French patent N 96 02 080, in definite conditions, in an environment treated simultaneously by at least two periodic actions, a vibratory treatment is performed, which breaks particles and molecules of the physical environment 2 (FIG. 1), forming, for example, molecules of the gas which represents the molecules of sprayer and/or vapour of the cooling environment 3 (FIG. 1).

[0047] The micronised molecules of the cooling environment 3 form big surfaces, consume the energy of the heat brought by environment 6 and change its states of aggregation. This interaction allows the performing of heat exchange between environments 3 and 6.

[0048] So, the process of vibratory treatment and of traffic of the various environments by means of a series of periodic actions on them allows the achievement of their use by means of the devices of evacuation 7 and 8 (FIG. 1). 

1. Vibratory process of conditioning, air conditioning, cooling and decontamination, disinfection, sterilisation of physical environments, characterised by the fact that: by means of at least one first periodic action (13), one acts on the regulated input stream of the physical environment (2) represented by refrigerating agents and by means of at least a second periodic action (11) on the same physical environment in a cold chamber and thereby, one forms the stream of cooled physical environment (3) and creates the necessary and sufficient conditions of the cooling, one forms the interaction between at least one cooling environment (3) and at least one cold-absorbing environment (6) in a heat exchange system (1), by means of at least a third periodic action (10), one acts on a cold-absorbing environment and therefore, one disinfects in a continuous or/and periodical way this physical environment and one creates the necessary and sufficient conditions of the functioning of the system of decontamination in stationary regime, by means of at least a fourth action (14), one acts on a cooling environment (3) and thereby, one achieves the necessary and sufficient conditions to form at least a closed circuit of the circulation of the cooling physical environment (3) by regulating its debit by means of a regulation device (8), by means of at least a fifth action (15), one acts on a cold-absorbing environment (6) and thereby, one achieves the necessary and sufficient conditions to form at least a closed circuit of the circulation of the cold-absorbing physical environment (6) by regulating its debit by means of a regulation device (7), one supplies action systems (11-15) with the energy of at least one source (9) in optimal regime and one achieves so the necessary and sufficient conditions of the vibratory treatment of the physical environments (2, 3 and 6) and one performs the effective regimes of functioning regulated by the system of conditioning, air conditioning, cooling and decontamination, disinfection, physical sterilisation of environments.
 2. Process following claim 1, characterised by the fact that: by means of at least a periodic action (4) of mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, electric, magnetic, electromagnetic, acoustic, or mixed nature, one acts on the cooling physical environment, one micronises and one divides the physical environment (2) and, by modification of its state of aggregate, one obtains the cooling environment (3) in the form of vapor and/or of sprayer with dimensions of particles lower than the micron, by means of at least a periodic action (12) on the micronised cooling physical environment, this environment is recovered in order to be used in a closed circuit with the help of the device in regulated regime.
 3. Process following one of the claims 1 and 2, characterised by the fact that: one acts in a additional way on the stream of the cooling environment (3) by a periodic action, notably by a hard brilliance or by a magnetic radiation, or still by an electromagnetic and/or mixed brilliance, thus one creates additional conditions favouring its decontamination, its disinfection and its sterilisation. one acts in a additional way on the stream of the cold-absorbing physical environment (6) by a periodic action, notably by a hard brilliance or by a magnetic radiation, or still by an electromagnetic and/or mixed brilliance, thus one creates additional conditions favouring its decontamination, its disinfection and its sterilisation.
 4. Device for the implementation of the process following claim 1, characterised by the fact that it contains at least: a first system of vibratory periodic action (13); a second system of vibratory periodic action (11) supplied by a source of energy (9) and acting on a regulated stream of the physical environment (2) represented by refrigerating agents in a cold chamber (1); a closed circuit of the circulation of the cooling physical environment (3) and the system of regulation of its debit by means of a regulation device (7); a closed circuit of the circulation of the cold-absorbing physical environment (6) and the system of regulation (8) of its debit by means of a regulation device; a cold chamber and a heat exchanger performing the interaction between at least one cooling environment (3) and at least one cold-absorbing environment (6); at least a vibratory system ( )10 of decontamination, disinfection and sterilisation of physical environments.
 5. Device following claim 4, characterised by the fact that: the first (13) and second (11) systems are reunited in a single periodic action system, the first (11) and second (13) periodic action systems are set in motion by the energy of the regulated stream of the physical environment (2), notably when the first and second systems are achieved in the form of a siren or of a whistle, the cold chamber and the heat exchanger are reunited in a single system of exchange of heat, regulated gates and/or suction pumps constitute the systems of regulation of the debit of the physical environments (3 and 6).
 6. Process following one of the claims 4 and 5, characterised by the fact that aforementioned periodic actions (11 and 13) are regulated in frequency and/or in amplitude according to the debits of the cooling environment and the cold-absorbing environment (6).
 7. Device following the claims 4-6, characterised by the fact that it contains at least: a first vibratory action system (13), notably of electromagnetic and/or thermic brilliance, which acts on the regulated streams of the physical environments (2); a second periodic action system (11), notably of mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, magnetic, electric, ultrasound or mixed type, performing the micronisation of the physical environment (2) in a treatment chamber, for instance a cold and/or an acoustic chamber, or still a heat exchange chamber (1) (heat exchanger), or a mixed chamber, and pulverising it in the form of vapor or of sprayer by means of a pulverisation system (4), which represents at least a cooling and/or freezing system of the physical environment (2), at least a closed circuit of the traffic of the cooling physical environment (3) and at least a system of regulation of its debit by means of a device of regulation (7) constituted by a regulated gate and/or by a suction pump; at least a closed circuit of the circulation of the cold-absorbing physical environment (6) and at least a system (8) of regulation of its debit by means of a regulation device constituted by a regulated gate and/or by a suction pump; a cold chamber and at least a heat exchanger (1) performing the interaction between at least a cooling environment (3) and at least a cold-absorbing environment (6); at least a vibratory system (10) of decontamination, disinfection and sterilisation of physical environments. 